We have come a long way, folks!  When our farm started marketing grassfed beef directly to customers we had a fairly clear field but not a lot of understanding of what the term grassfed meant.  Our biggest challenge was trying to explain one-on-one to customers what grassfed was and how it represented a different production model. Today, the grassfed message

  American Grassfed Association Conference 2013 “Growing the Culture of Simple, Honest Food.”  In San Diego October 30- November 1 grassfed producers, consumers, processors, distributers, food artisans and end users came together to celebrate the American Family Farm dedicated to the sustainable and healthy production of grassfed and pastured meats.   Highlights of the conference included, Mary Berry (Wendell Berry’s daughter) of

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.  They paved paradise  and put up a parking lot”  Joni Mitchell NPR’s “All Things Considered” editor went to the market to buy grass fed beef .  She discovered her store only carried Australian grass fed beef NOT American. This observation prompted my NPR interview

Widespread Public Support for USDA Proposed Rule as Comment Period Concludes April 9, 2013 Washington, D.C.—Consumers and farmers overwhelmingly support strengthened Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) rules, as demonstrated by more than 35,600 petition signatures sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture demanding that the integrity of COOL be protected in the face of World Trade Organization (WTO) scrutiny. Four national advocacy groups

Rep. Louise M. Slaughter Ranking Member, House Committee on Rules Representing New York’s 25th District   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 14, 2013 MEDIA CONTACT Andrew Lewis (202) 225-2888 Slaughter Introduces Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act  Legislation Introduced As Warnings from CDC and Medical Community Grow WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), the only microbiologist in Congress, today introduced

Driven by the increasing awareness of antibiotic resistance and its link to food animal production and the ever growing demand for meat and poultry products raised without antibiotics, The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, is hosting a Supermoms Against Superbugs Advocacy Day on May 15 in Washington, D.C. to

The USDA announced on Tuesday the confirmation of another case of “mad cow” disease, the 4th to be found in the United States.  This current case was in a dairy cow located in central California. Again, the consumer wonders about the safety of our food and should we be worried? “Mad Cow” disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). A fatal